Paula O'Rourke >>> Now playing bass with ERIC BURDON & THE ANIMALS!!!

***TWO NEW AUDIO TRACKS***
Paula O'Rourke is releasing two BRAND NEW tracks from her recording session this summer in Barcelona, Spain. The session was recorded in July and featured Mato Vilar and Aleph Alquiar from Venezuela. Paula O'Rourke is releasing one track as a FREE download (My Eyes Are Dry - 4.11 mb) and the other track (I Heard Every Word) is available for your listening pleasure through the jukebox on the main page of her website. ENJOY!!!

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Eric Burdon (WAR / The Animals) has assembled a new band including Paula O'Rourke on bass & vocals. The first leg of the world tour has been completed and the band plans on continuing to stay on the road this fall/winter. Coming to a theater near you! Eric and the band are very excited to put their touch on old Animals classics as well as bringing the new album, Soul of a Man, to the stage!

***Eric Burdon & The Animals 2008***

05/04/2008 * US- The Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza * New York, NY
05/17/2008 * US- Doheny State Beach * Dana Point CA
06/11/2008 * US- Mayo Park * Rochester MN
06/12/2008 * CA- Thunder Bay Community Auditorium * Thunder Bay ONT
06/14/2008 * US- The Spotlight at Spotlight 29 Casino * Coachella CA
07/17/2008 * US- Humphreys Concerts by the Bay * San Diego CA
07/18/2008 * US- Humphreys Concerts by the Bay * San Diego CA
07/30/2008 * US- Wolf Trap * Vienna, VA
08/10/2008 * US- Pompano Beach Amphitheatre * Pompano, FL
09/07/2008 * US- New Mexico State Fair * Albuquerque NM
09/13/2008 * US- The Cannery Casino NV * Las Vegas, NV
09/20/2008 * US- Bright House Networks * Bakersfield CA
09/21/2008 * US- State Fair of Oklahoma * Oklahoma City OK
11/28/2008 * CA- River Rock Show Theatre * Richmond BC

Check out this cool review from The Animals @ Museumsmeile - Bonn, Germany:

Sunday was also a night of blues - but this time the lyrics took front of stage. Willy De Ville and Eric Burdon brought with them two great voices and many, many more great songs to enjoy.

Eric Burdon: 'Bring it on Home' by The Animals was one of the discs found on a jukebox belonging to John Lennon from the late 60's. Lead singer Eric Burdon (along with Wally Ingram, Paula O'Rourke, Eric McFadden & Red Young) takes the stage in a t-shirt quoting Lennon's observation that as a Beatle from 'Up North' the 'southerners treated us like animals'. The Animals were presumably similarly despised, although Burdon himself was seemingly not overly keen on his Newcastle home, once famously saying it was a city where 'the rain comes at you sideways'.

'Bring it on Home' and 'We gotta get outta this place' are R&B classics given fresh life as is the bands mega-hit 'House of the Rising Sun' which escapes sounding like a tired time piece thanks to stunning lead guitar work on a classical guitar body from Mcfadden - fantastic stuff.

Click here to read the rest of the review from Germany.

The Animals @ Museumsmeile
Bonn, Germany - 7/30/06

Check out these cool video clips from Eric Burdon & The Animals (featuring Wally Ingram, Eric McFadden, Paula O'Rourke, Red Young) @ Lugano Estival Jazz - Lugano, Switzerland - July 2006:

Eric Burdon & Animals - Soul Of A Man

Eric Burdon & Animals - Misunderstood

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Click here to see the upcoming Animals tour dates!

A HUGE THANKS goes out to The Guacamole Fund for presenting one of the most amazing benefits EVER!

BEAT IT WALLY!
A BENEFIT CONCERT FOR MUSICIAN WALLY 'LLAMA' INGRAM

Alex Theatre - Glendale, California
January 31st, 2007

Keb Mo, Bonnie Raitt, Wally Ingram, Sheryl Crow, Tad Wadhams, Eric McFadden & more... @ BEAT IT WALLY! benefit
Beat It Wally, a benefit concert for musician Wally Ingram presented by The Guacamole Fund on January 31st was a HUGE SUCCESS! Thanks to everyone that helped put onb the evenbt and to all of the fans who came out to pack the house at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA. The concert lasted 5+ hours and featured scheduled performers: GARBAGE, THE MARTINIS with JOEY SANTIAGO & DAVID LOVERING of THE PIXIES, BONNIE RAITT, JACKSON BROWNE, SHERYL CROW, KEB'MO', FREEDY JOHNSTON, VICTORIA WILLIAMS, TOM FREUND, THE SECTION QUARTET, KEVIN O'NEAL & THE RADIANT VOICES, ERIC MCFADDEN, PAULA O'ROURKE, KNOW-IT-ALL BOYFRIENDS as well as some SUPRISE additions to the event including CROWDED HOUSE (all the way from New Zealand) and the one & only GEORGE CLINTON and a few of his PFunk Allstars!

Wally 'Llama' Ingram is a drummer extraordinaire who has performed with Sheryl Crow, Jackson Browne, David Lindley, Keb'Mo', Bonnie Raitt, and Eric Burdon and the Animals, among others. Musicians Banding Together to Fight Cancer was organized by Butch Vig and other friends of Wally to help him beat throat cancer.

Click here for more photos from the BEAT IT WALLY! benefit.

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Beat It Wally! REVIEWS:

"Beat It Wally!" Bracelet

*BEAT IT WALLY BRACELETS*
The one and only Ms. Paula O'Rourke (Wally Ingram's band member in Eric Burdon & The Animals) has designed these cool "Beat It Wally!" bracelets to help rally support and donations for the Wally Ingram benefit fund. Wally Ingram was recently diagnosed with throat & neck cancer. Wally has just undergone surgery and will be starting chemotherapy treatment soon. Here are some words from Paula:

"While we scramble with our feeling of the incredible injustice of Wally's illness, I thought support bracelets would be one way that we can support and focus our thoughts, prayahs and love to dah Ingrams! I have a paypal account set up and will have donations sent staight to a "Beat it Wally!" Ingram fund. Please e-mail Paula with bracelet requests!

We plan to make a few different designs (Packers, Rasta) depending on the response. If you don't feel comfortable with Paypal, we will accept checks as well. Please e-mail Paula with bracelet requests!